It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
Tithing isn't the ceiling of giving; it's the floor. It's not the finish line of giving; it's just the starting blocks. Tithes… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I come from a small town, so there we have this habit of talking to rickshawallahs while you are making a trip.… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
All during the day, in the chinks of time between the things we find ourselves obliged to do, there are the moments… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come. — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation. — Lucas Hedges Copy Share Image
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do. — Albert L. Gray Copy Share Image
You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We should realize that our deadliest enemies are anger and other delusions. Since these delusions are deeply ingrained mental habits, working to… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have the habit of always saying thank you to police and guards who watch us. — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
